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NEWS - Saturday, October 13, 2001

How is the XBOX doing at TGS2001?

Microsofts Xbox faces tough fight against PlayStation.

Its hard to imagine Microsoft Corp as the underdog. But thats exactly what the US software giant is in this flashy video-game show that opened yesterday near Tokyo, where it must struggle to win over Japanese fans to its Xbox console in the home market of its biggest rivals, Sony Corp and Nintendo Co.

Microsoft announced yesterday its getting some help from Sega Corp, a Japanese game maker that is now only making software for other companies machines after dropping its own console -- the Dreamcast -- earlier this year. Dreamcast lost out in the race against Sonys PlayStation 2.